In Search of the English Eccentric - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Search of the English Eccentric write by Henry Hemming. This book was released on 2008. In Search of the English Eccentric available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The English eccentric is under threat. In our increasingly homogenised society, these celebrated parts of our national identity are anomalies that may soon no longer fit. Or so it seems. On his entertaining and thought-provoking quest to discover the most eccentric English person alive today, Henry Hemming unearths a surprisingly large array of delightfully odd characters. He asks what it is to be an eccentric. Is it simply to thrive on creativity and non-conformity, and where does this incarnation of Englishness stem from? Hemming concludes that this tribe is, in fact, in rude health, as essential as ever to the English national identity, only they are no longer to be found where you'd expect them. Featuring interviews with Dame Vivienne Westwood, the Marquess of Bath, Pete Doherty, the modern-day reincarnation of King Arthur, the Leopard Man of Skye, Sebastian Horsley, Chris Eubank, Captain Beany and Brian Haw among others.
English Eccentrics
English Eccentrics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook English Eccentrics write by Edith Sitwell. This book was released on 2022-08-16. English Eccentrics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "English Eccentrics" by Edith Sitwell. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
English Eccentrics and Eccentricities
English Eccentrics and Eccentricities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook English Eccentrics and Eccentricities write by John Timbs. This book was released on 1866. English Eccentrics and Eccentricities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
English Eccentric Interiors
English Eccentric Interiors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook English Eccentric Interiors write by Miranda Harrison. This book was released on 2006-06-16. English Eccentric Interiors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Little has been written about the expression of English eccentricity through individual interior design. This work looks at everything from a contemporary rendition of Gothic opulence in Notting Hill to a Victorian interior in Devon, along with private houses, eclectic museums, restaurants, bars and theatres.
English Garden Eccentrics
English Garden Eccentrics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook English Garden Eccentrics write by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan. This book was released on 2022-04-26. English Garden Eccentrics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A highly original examination of a series of unique gardens made by English eccentrics from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries In his new book, Todd Longstaffe-Gowan looks at a series of unique gardens made by English eccentrics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Their unusual creators--from the superstitious antiquary William Stukeley (d.1765), to the pleasure-ground proprietor Jonathan Tyers (d.1767), and the bird-loving Lady Reade (d.1811)--built miniature mountains, shaped topiary, collected animals, excavated caves, and assembled architectural fragments to realize their gardens in a way that was, and sometimes still is, thought to be excessive. Bringing together garden and landscape history with cultural history and biography, English Garden Eccentrics examines what it is about the gardener and his or her creation that can be seen as eccentric and analyzes an area of garden history that has scarcely been previously explored: gardens seen as expressions of the singular character of their makers, and therefore functioning, in effect, as a form of autobiography. This lively and accessible book calls on gardeners today to learn from example and dare to be eccentric.
